Tangerine

Sean Baker

Tangerine moves fast, rocket-boosting from one screwball showdown to the next on the vim of its endlessly watchable, largely untrained cast (both Rodriguez and Taylor are making their screen debuts) and its swaggering soundtrack. It’s often hysterically funny, thanks to both its vinegary dialogue and the casual absurdity of its heroines’ everyday lives.

Robbie Collin / The Telegraph

Rodriguez and Taylor are a terrific double act, their on-screen chemistry providing both laugh-out-loud comedy and moving melancholia. Baker brings the same nonjudgmental approach that characterised his Independent Spirit awards prize-winner Starlet, while an in-your-face soundtrack pumps up the volume to boisterous effect.

Mark Kermode / The Guardian

It’s this bigger-picture compassion, born of an impulse to place the unique struggles of sexual and ethnic minorities in conversation with each other, that elevates Tangerine from a raggedy little group portrait to a generous and surprisingly hopeful vision of humanity.